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Book a tour to Oak Alley or Laura Plantation from New Orleans. Laura Plantation, on the other hand, is a restored historic ...

About 225 year old oak trees grow along the path to the big house at the Oak Alley Plantation in Vacherie, La., Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. The trees were brought in between 1820 and 1840 with slave labor.

If history -- antebellum history, specifically -- is the real religion of the South, then plantations are the region's churches.

Oak Alley Plantation in Vacherie offers self-guided tours of slave cabins, and, based on interest, they hope to begin guided tours soon. Information panels teach visitors about the small cabins ...

We have focused on just one section of plantation homes in the Mississippi valley, between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. There are other plantations scattered here and there. About 15 miles ...

Finally, I made my way to the Oak Alley Plantation. There’s no tour of the slave cabins, but they have been turned into a walkable exhibit that features the devices used to torture enslaved men ...

The issue of slavery at Laura is not shied away from or glossed over as it was at Oak Alley. 175 out of 195 workers on the plantation were slaves. The cruelties of this way of life were apparent.